Iomega to add USB 3.0 to eGo portable drives

Iomega announced Tuesday that its plans to equip all of its eGo portable hard drives in 500GB and 1TB capacities with the new USB 3.0 interface by early October. Iomega is a little late to the USB 3.0 game as Western Digital, Seagate, and many other storage vendors released their USB 3.0-based external hard drive a long time ago.

According to Iomega, to make up for this, the new USB 3.0 portable drive will share the same software bundle that comes with its existing USB 2.0 drives. And most importantly, according to the company, its USB 3.0 drives will also cost the same as its USB 2.0 devices.

Arguably, Iomega eGo offers the most comprehensive, even redundant, set of software applications that make their drives do much more than just serve as portable storage. Its software applications include:

v.Clone software that captures a complete virtual image of your PC, including the operating system, all applications, settings, and files and saves it to an Iomega hard drive

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